Please help: How to divide tracks

[Jason]

You know how you sometimes have megamix CDs with only one or two very long tracks, eg. "Micmac Dance Party Vol. 1".

What's the best way to burn a copy with the individual songs divided into separate tracks? Will any CD mastering software do this?

Thanks!

 

[Fernando]

SAW32Lite

Jason,

This is how I do it:

I use my SAW32 PC software to create "regions"--each region represents a track.

I edit the regions however I need to, in order to break up the mix into separate tracks.

Then, still using the SAW program, I transfrom the regions into ".WAV" files, which I name alphabetically or numerically (so I know how they are to be arranged later, when "burning" the CD).

Before I "burn" the CD (with the Adaptec Easy CD Creator program), I make sure to arrange the ".WAV" files (created from the edited "regions" in the SAW program) in the order needed to keep the mix going in the order you originally got it. This allows me to break up a continuous mix into various tracks, which all play one right after the other.

Your final product, the "burned" CD, now allows you to go straight to whichever song you want, or you just start with the first track and let them all play in order.

I hope that helps,
Fernando Benitez from San Diego, CA

 

[Jason]

That's kinda what I do right now. It's very long and tedious. I usually use my minidisc player to copy a megamix CD, and then divide up the tracks by "marking" them. It's the easiest way to go.

But I want to have a CD copy with the individual tracks. With wave editing software, it takes 10 minutes to convert the CD into a wave file. Then I cut and recut and recut, save and save, and I know it's gonna get crazy, especially when the minidisc I cut up ended up having over 90 tracks! I was already getting impatient dividing one 60-minute mix in half on my wave editing software. I thought there was a way you can track mark the wave and then burn it right away.

Thanks for responding!

 

[MakeYaDance]

Easiest way is to do it in real time. From cd player to cd recorder. That's what I do. But if you don't have access to a home unit, then you have to do it thru pc software like Fernando said.

 

[law2k1]

any free shareware that u can do it on